Annotation LXXVIII, Whether God can be seen by the angels (Genesis 6:9)
“Noah a just man, and perfect.”
Annotation LXXVIII, Whether God can be seen by the angels (Genesis 6:9) — Annotations on the Old Testament Annotations on the Old Testament
Annotatio LXXVIII
”Noah a just man, and perfect.” — Genesis 6:9
Chrysostom, at the end of the 23rd homily on Genesis, explaining this, has this proposition:1 “The flashing majesty of the divine glory neither the Cherubim nor those incorporeal powers can see; but they cover their opposed faces, their wings being set against [it].” The Armenian heretics, who taught that God is not seen by the blessed, used this and very many other similar sentences of Chrysostom;2 the elucidation of which you have in Annotation 182 of the following book.
Footnotes
Right margin: Whether God can be seen by the angels. (Deus an ab angelis videri possit.)↩
Right margin: The Armenians denied that God is seen by the blessed. (Armeni negarunt Deum videri à beatis.)↩
Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation LXXVIII, Whether God can be seen by the angels (Genesis 6:9),” in Annotations on the Old Testament,
English translation, Mind of the Church,
https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta/079-annotation-lxxviii-whether-god-can-be-seen-by-the-angels-gen/.
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